San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-05

ana went ON. And now through the
trees | saw building; | thought il was
4 bbd, or tomb of saint. and took off
my slippers, as true believer should
do on holy ground. | pressed un and
came out into the open, and then ! saw
that il was no kiJbd that was before
me, but a magnificent palace-thp pal
ace of the Grand Shereef. | guessed.
Then, il is impossible To say why. an
immense disgust came upon me of my
wanderings, and longed to be out of
this lovely. treacherOus, lying-in-wait
land; desired wings IN tlY away. but
l was very weary. and | only found Il
secluded spot to lie down and 60 to
sleep in. | had a little more than laid
down when received a violent blow on
the back of the head. | rose To my
knees and looked round, and saw stand
ing over me one whom | knew TO be q
SheTeef by his green urban"
$50 you're the man, them" | said.
"But go on"
"He stared at me amoment, and went
on.
and knew him to be what they
call physician by the figures on his
bOdy-dress, and by his pan of charcoal,
which their physicians always carry.
'Dog' he cried in MOghrebbin, Il have
followed you; | have found you Outl
Seel' and he pointed to my feet. Has
a true believer had things on his toes,
or the toes crooked as you have? You
are Christian! You shall no longer
deceive the people with your Nazareny
sOrceryn With that he seized me by
the neck, held my arms to his sides
with his knees, and snatched red-hOt
iron from his pan. | struggled and got
II 10 . L.,
tended for my eyes burned this hand,
as you see. / was struggling still more,
when | saw man of fine figure, and of
pure white dress, pass slowly near the
palace, and called aloud 'Abd-es-Sa-
laml Abd-es-Salam, That is the
name of the Grand Shereef, and | guess
ed the man may be he, and so / cry
aloud; for it is the law or the custom
that if you see the Sultan or the Grand
Shereef and call upon his name he
must consider your case"
Just So" said j. at came all right,
of course, or you wouldn't be here.
Now" said |. "Dr. BenigSen, | have
always liked you, and IwOn t use strong
language to you, especially considering
you had such a sharp shave; but why
the devil couldn't you get through your
trouble without bOthering my sister
about it,"
Your sister," You should have seen
him look at me, and from me to Secsu.
at is impossible for me to understand
what you mean"
Now" said |, that happened last
October, you said; October "a"
perhaps it was one day in the end of
October" said he.
+Now," said T., don't try to get out
of it. On the same day, and at the same
hour my sister Charlotte saw and felt
the same things as you saw and felt"
and | told him all about it.
1T is" said he, "a very remarkable
coincidence"
Coincidence be hanged" said I."You
did it, if doctors word and your own
evidence is worth anything" Il was
getting warm, you see. and he was get
ting to look cold and pale.) "Dr. Ar
not" said |, "a clever man-yOu know
hinl-said that only to dream of stun
ming and burning and stabbing is not
enough to produce the effect of all the
three; he said the only way was for
some strong sympathy, he called it, to
be between the girl and some one else
to carry the effect from one to the other
along the string. The girl didn't know
was happening to you, though / suspect
she must have thought of you some
times, so you must have tclegraphed,
so to speak, the things on. And a mean,
cOwardly thing it is" said |, "tO think,
Benigsen, that you should put your
troubles on my sister-tTy to put your
pains on her. That's what | think of
it; and very shabby business it is, in
my opinion"
He looked at me. But" said l, "lOOk
as you like, you cannot look me out of
that, especially when l know you've
been at my sister several times since,
troubling and upsetting her. 1t may
be going on yet for all l know. You
must give me some sort of satisfaction,
Benigsen, now that l have found you,
that you will not trouble the girl in that
way any more"
"CaptainRaven," said he, Il will when
you prove to me that | have done any
thing of my own will to trouble her.
Your sister, will confess have some
times thought of her since | saw her
and talked with her in your English
home, but | have never done anything
besides. And this doctor who talks about
sympathicS and ClairVOyance-Irem em-
Der him-a foolish idealist, who would
like to believe in spirit rapS and media,
and explain them by pSeudO-sciencel
PIT! am man Of science and doctor
myself, and | prOmiSe-here before
Moses SeCsu--that if | do not prove to
you that your sisters strange vision and
marks We're not due to me. | will give
her So, 900 on her wedding day. Oh, yes,
| have the money to command: l am
just preparing to leave Tangier to at
tend to the estate of my uncle. newly
dead"
WELL" said l, thinking. perhaps. we
had not seen properly into things,
there's often more inside to dreams
than people guess; how will you prove
itE'
"Oh" said he. Il must come with you
to your home in England, and look in
to the matter myself. You are going
home" said he, after you have been to
MOgadOr, am going to Bavaria now,
to act according to my UnCle's will.
Meet me in LOndOn-When%
so | invited him. you see, not to
meet me in London, but TO go straight
on home and meet me there on Septem-
Der 8, the day before CharlOtte'S birth
day."
need not quote this long epistle fur
ther. With its arrival. Charlotte, who
was still troubled at frequent intervals
by the extraordinary vision, began to
improve. and to look forward with feel
ings of her own. | thought, to Septem-
Der 5. There had been no need to ask
her if BenigSen had never been in her
thoughts before she had that peculiar
vision; her tell-tale face when the letter
was read sufficiently proclaimed that
no had OcpIIpipI bpr tbpuUbtC n mood